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Thursday, 25 September 2008

Stolen Bank Details

I'm just thinking I should call this the scam blog, following the popularity of my rogue publishing write up. Well, seems I fallen foul of some more criminal activity this week, as £1,400 has disappeared from my business account, leaving me well hacked off. So far one transaction has appeared on my statement for £650 spent at a BMW modification online store. I waiting for the rest of the money to appear just to see what other tasteless tat these crooks have wasted my hard earned on.

I've spoken to the bank and stopped the card, which has I still have. Unfortunately, I use it online quite a bit, so they could have gotten hold of the details any number of ways. Hacked a store or service I've purchased at, been dishonestly obtained by an employee of one of the stores I use or any other number of devious behaviour. This is the first instance I've had of anything like this, and I've been happily handing over my card details for at least 8 years online.

So once these other transactions come in, I need to file a Visa dispute form, and the bank were confident I'd get it back, but at the moment it's a case of wondering how long it will take. It's a substantial amount of money to not be sitting in my account for other purposes, especially as I have a lot of big bills coming up this month.

It's annoying that this can happen, obviously they would have had to use another address to get the goods delivered, so why are online stores still accepting delivery addresses other than the billing address? I don't think they actually check the delivery address when they take payment. Surely it would be more secure for them to make sure everything tallies, the address, the number and the security code? Oh well, let's just hope this dispute form doesn't take to long to sort out.

Posted by Dio Bach at 10:03 | 4 comments | links to this post